Fr if anyone in the EU wants to host me I’ll be your (32m,pan,switch,cd) live-in maid while I job hunt. Please inquire within.

My first memory of a “global event” was 9/11. Then the Patriot Act and the Iraq/Afghanistan war. Then Citizens United and single-payer ObamaCare got shutdown and I gave up on the US, put my head down and got to work on an engineering degree so I could emigrate.

Thankfully, despite failing out and putting a total of 10 years into my 4 year degree, I graduated 2 years ago and am in a reasonable position to make that move. Leaving family and friends behind fucking sucks, but I can always come back when things simmer down, or at least provide a place to go if things don’t.

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I don’t think the United States in general gives a flying fuck about non-whites, now or in the past.

I give a flying fuck though, so I’m gonna get pissed when I see a basic lack of respect for any person. I’m going to get pissed and rail against every single erosion of rights I can, right up until I get the fuck out of this insane country.

You misunderstand; getting stuck there is exactly what the senator should have done if they wouldn’t let him take Mr. Garcia.

This is a falsely accused, illegally deported human stuck in an El Salvadorian mega-prison. Mr. Garcia is incredibly lucky to be alive at all. Can you imagine being in that scenario, meeting with your US state senator, then being lead back into lock-up‽ They had zero justification for sending him there, zero justification to hold him there, and zero justification to keep him one second longer.

What was the point of Van Hollen flying down there personally if not to bring him home? Leaving Mr. Garcia behind is tacit approval for disregarding due process.

Naw you nailed the joke but markko has a good point as well. I wouldve quoted after the ellipses, personally, but my internettiquette is still very much a product of my play-by-post RPG forum days.

However, you do you man, and I hope you have a good day!

Am I the only one concerned that the senator didn’t forcibly bring him home? I feel like a US Marshall or three should have accompanied Mr. Garcia and the senator out the front door and onto the jet all the cons are complaining about.

I’m not German dude, I’m an American.

The support behind Israel in their genocide of the Palestinians is despicable.

Any support of any genocide anywhere is despicable.

Can we please stop excusing crimes against humanity when they happen to people we don’t like?

Hey, this is excellent, thank you! Definitely going to chase this down.

For anyone who actually cares enough to look this up for themselves,

13°32’1" N 88°48’18" W

Or,

13.53361°N 88.80500° W

Maps is clean but Google Earth has a historical view. The OTHERWISE UNATTRIBUTED PICTURE (therefore invalid as a source) is from March 2024.

Fuck you guys, learn to read and research, fuck!

10 million lived awful lives no better than that of the Jews in concentration camps.

Source?

living in work camps for 20 generations spanning 350 years.

Source?

Never has there been any compensation paid to descendants of slavery

I’ll let you have this one

Even today, there is still compensation paid to descendants of Holocaust victims, and the time difference between the end of slavery and the Holocaust is less than that between the Holocaust and today.

So? The US is in the wrong for not compensating, Germany is actually trying at least.

not the 20 million Slavs.

We’re discussing the Holocaust perpetuated by the Nazi regime against Jewish people and other so-called ‘undesireable’ humans, not Stalin’s crimes against the people he was ostensibly responsible for. Stay on topic.

Even though Slavs are a more homogeneous ethnic group than Jews. It was just inconvenient during the cold war to see the USSR and its citizens as a victim worthy of compensation.

Why are you using ethnic homogeneity as an argument in your favor? Especially when trying to minimize the Jewish Holocaust in favor of painting the USSR as the victim‽

The Nazi’s never had popular democratic support for the war and genocide

The Germans of WW2 never reached that level of moral depravity, only a few Nazi’s did

Source? Pretty sure we had some pretty public trials over those claims already.

I don’t even disagree with you about Gaza, you’ve just got incredibly shit takes on history.

If his home instance is any indication, this absolutely tracks for the Midwest US. I grew up in the northern Midwest and drove past a Confederate flag frequently for the better part of 15 years. I got to thinking about it; I recognized it as a dog whistle for racism, but did the people who flew it so proudly recognize it as such?

And I realized they probably didn’t. They likely saw it as a ‘proud symbol of their good ole boy, “states rights fighters” Southern heritage.’ and frankly, that idea bothered me at a deeper level than if they were flying that flag as a dog-whistle.

The people of Germany have taken generational responsibility for the horrendous, genocidal 3rd Reich. They own it, they condemn it, and they do their best to combat misinformation about it.

Not so for the US. We tried, briefly, a little bit, to affect and promote Reconstruction. It failed pretty spectacularly thanks to Andrew Johnson’s vetoes. The ensuing decades saw white supremacists develop the Good Ole Boy myth, white-washing and denying the true reason they wanted to fracture the Union.

Jump to today; Germans arguing against anti-Semitism while the US is deporting brown people to concentration camps.

My passport arrived today, praise Satan. Trying to properly secure a work visa in the EU but will also have my bugout bag with documentation close at hand.

Speaking of; got any job opportunities for a 2 YOE mechanical engineer? Or advice on applying to Masters programs in Germany? I believe I can travel to and stay in the Schengen Zone for 90 days visa-free with the US passport, but I’m not sure if I’m able to convert that to a work permit.

Any EU friends able to help a worried AuDHD dude? I know zero people who have traveled internationally and I’m lost.

Ukraine has one if you feel like skipping to the secret final boss ending.

What’s the source of this photo? I saw a different comment mention bodies and a satellite photo, is this what they were referring to?

Do not other him, do not de-humanize him, or anyone. Ever. Pity him absolutely, hate him if you’re inclined.

Everyone is born a human, be they typical or divergent. Whether they are typical or divergent, we are all human. The whole point of shifting to “neurodivergent” was to reduce the dehumanization of those with differently structured brains.

The owning class live in their own bubble of affluence and excess. Their lives have been fundamentally different than that of the working class. They have devised their own morals, their own ethics, their own nations and religions and empires for all of human history. The owning class are just as much the products of imperfect human systems replacing imperfect human systems, as are the working class. It’s all generational trauma, year after decade after century after millenia.

Yet, they are still human. To think otherwise is to consider yourself superior in a fundamental way. To think “I would never do that!” without considering how the fundamental differences between your upbringings is a judgement call made in bad faith.

This is not to say I think they shouldn’t be punished to the full extent of the law. There is absolutely still personal responsibility regardless of your upbringing. But when we base or bias our systems off of/towards rewarding adversarial human emotions should it come as a surprise when we raise adversarial humans?

Regardless of their nature or nurture, we are all humans, we are all stuck on this planet together, and boy is it heating up fast.

I do think it’s important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors’ willingness to help,

Great start! Before continuing the rest of your sentence, please back up two commas and ask the question “where did our society fail in supporting this person to cause them to fall?” But the devil’s after that second comma, because

but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

A community in a society concerned about supporting these people from the beginning, not just trying to fix the most visible symptom, would not see the presence of a fellow human being as a ‘safety hazard’ or ‘burden’ but would rightly see it as a failure of their society to take care of the vulnerable.

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Have you tried Necrophagist’s Epitaph? Technical death metal is a much more appropriate genre for these trying times.

If it’s Windows give Fancy Zones (included in PowerToys) a whirl. Modifiable window snap zones are excellent.

Reject urb-spreading!

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